Submitted by Carmyn de Jonge on Mon, 08/02/2021 - 11:33
“Leadership is arguably the most important attribute in the tool kit of a conservation biologist”. Dietz et al, 2004
Successful and high-achieving conservation biologists often find themselves in leadership roles within projects and organisations. However, they often lack the management and leadership training that enables them to make the best decisions, manage partnerships, staff and stakeholders and ultimatelyachieve their potential as conservation practitioners. The course is designed for conservation practitioners and postgraduate students who are seeking their first introduction to management and leadership training within the context of wildlife conservation.
The course runs over a period of five weeks and is delivered through a series of online recorded presentations, background reading materials, individual assignments and online discussion forums. It is structured to encourage you to apply the learning to your work.
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Demonstrate more effective leadership skills to improve staff performance and project outputs and outcomes.
- Explain how motivational theory can help us to understand how to achieve high performance within individuals and teams.
- Identify interventions to adopt in order to help develop the performance of field teams.
- Demonstrate how to most appropriately intervene to deal with conflict constructively.
- Describe how to use specific management tools to plan projects, manage risk and monitor and evaluate project outputs and outcomes.
The non-credit bearing option course fee is £400. For enquiries contact: conservation.medicine@ed.ac.uk
